Reading for November 23rd

 Read Proverbs 30.17-33. In verses 18-20: Anaphora (the repetition of way) unites the piece. Each way is wonderous: The effortless flight of the eagle (or vulture), the legless movement of the serpent, the massive progress of a ship. The fourth climatic way is the course of a man and a woman toward each other, the attraction of the sexes. In verses 32-33: The syntax is like 6.1-3: If you have done such and such, then you must now do such and such. It is the mark of wisdom to make peace and avoid strife (15.18). There is wordplay in pressing the nose ("mits ap") and pressing anger ("mits appayim," literally, nostrils; anger). Comments or Questions..